Posts Tagged ‘smarter’

Check out this video made by C-SPAN back in 1987. It shows “a testy exchange in response to a question about his law school record from a man identified only as ‘Frank.””

“I think I probably have a higher IQ than you do, I suspect.”

Poor Frank! This vid got posted this morning just after news of Mr. Biden’s selection by Barack Obama. Slate.com’s Mickey Kaus predicted the surfacing of this material:

“Why Biden Would Be Bad: There’s a bit of C-SPAN tape that should surface quickly if he’s named. … Remember, it wasn’t Biden’s plagiarism that knocked him out of the 1988 race. It was “‘I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do”–a bizarre videotaped putdown that Biden immediately called into question with five (5) boasts about his academic record, four (4) of which turned out to be easily disproved B.S.”